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Following his highly acclaimed and bestselling book England: An Elegy (Bloomsbury Continuum), Roger Scruton now seeks to assess the basis of national sentiment and loyalty, at a time when the United Kingdom must redefine its position in the world. To what are our duties owed and why? How do we respond to the pull of globalisation and mass migration that are erasing the face of our country, to the rise of Islam and to the decline of Christian belief and the culture our ancestors built on? Do we accept these as inevitable or do we resist them? If we resist them on what basis do we build?
In order to answer these questions we need to revisit the foundations of our national experience. Scruton surveys the British legacy – social, legal, cultural and political – and animates those sentiments which attach us to it. In so doing he answers the most pressing question – how do we include in our national identity the various sources of opposition to it?
Published | 16 Nov 2017 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781472947888 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Illustrations | No illustrations |
Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
While everyone else panics and reacts, Scruton thinks. And produces answers.
Douglas Murray
Scruton, a political philosopher who was formerly professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, has such a harmonious writing style that one could almost imagine this essay being set to music … I found this strangely moving, and that's more than can be said for your standard work of political philosophy.
Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
A worthwhile description of how nationhood could help us regain a feeling of community, without sparking the surge in national chauvinism that EU supporters claim would result.
Daily Telegraph
We need a national debate about the kind of country we now hope to be; and we need it now. It is at such moments that nations turn to their philosophers ... High on any such list is Sir Roger Scruton ... At the heart of Scrutonian thought, however, lies the insight encapsulated in the title of his latest book: Where We Are. For this is above all an analysis of what we mean by a sense of place, of identity, of country.
Daniel Johnson, Editor, Standpoint
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